French tourist cremated

DENPASAR: The body of a 27-year-old French national who died in a traffic accident will be cremated today in Mumbul, near the tourist resort area of Nusa Dua, 25 kilometers south of here.

Antara quoted the chief of the local administration's international bureau, Gus Sumastra, as saying yesterday that Stephane Pierre Pangin's ashes will be handed over to his family after they attend the cremation.

Pangin was riding on a motorcycle on Aug. 14 when he collided with a car in Silakarang village, Singapadu, in the Gianyar regency some 25 km east of here.

His body has been kept in Denpasar Hospital's morgue. (swe)